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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 6 – $196,000 for a Bottle of Smith-Madrone Riesling from California

Posted on May 3, 2015 by Stuart

Pictured above are Stuart (left) and Charles Smith (right) of the Smith-Madrone winery on Spring Mountain in Napa Valley, California. They’ve got good reason to look happy, because a bottle of their dry 1997 Riesling just sold at auction for … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 4 – Can You See the Real Me?

Posted on May 1, 2015 by Stuart

Can you see the real me? Can you?  I first heard The Who’s Quadrophenia album in November 1976 just over three years after it was released, and that line from the song The Real Me instantly etched itself into my … Continue reading →

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On the Riesling Road: Day 3 – 2014 in Germany is Up in the Heavens & Down to Zero

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Stuart

The Mainzer Weinbörse, the annual major presentation of the new vintage by the German VDP producers association is just about to end after two grueling days. They weren’t grueling only because of the sheer number of wines on show (more … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 20 – Billy Wagner’s Restaurant Nobelhart & Schmutzig is Some-thing/where Else (Part 2)

Posted on April 19, 2015 by Stuart

The photograph above is a Portrait of the Gastronomic Artist as a Young Man, which is to say the previous incarnation of Billy Wagner just before he started seriously planing what became his new restaurant Nobelhart & Schmutzig (N&S) on … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 19 – Billy Wagner’s Restaurant Nobelhart & Schmutzig is Some-thing/where Else (Part 1)

Posted on April 18, 2015 by Stuart

I don’t normally do restaurant reviews, but occasionally my visits to restaurants were so exciting that I ended up writing some kind of “review”. This is such a case thanks to restaurateur Billy Wagner (left), dishwasher Samuel Teye-Osom (centre), chef Micha Schäfer … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 17 – The Vanishing Wine Journalist: Good, Bad or Flaky?

Posted on April 16, 2015 by Stuart

As you can see from the title of this posting it’s Day 17 for me in Berlin this time around, but sometimes it felt like Day minus 17. Several times I’ve walked into wine stores, wine bars or wine tastings … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 15 – Unsmiling Faces of Berlin

Posted on April 14, 2015 by Stuart

Achim von Oetinger is not a Berliner, at least not normally. After looking very carefully at this photograph of the winegrower from Erbach, Rheingau I took the other evening at Berlin wine merchant Planet Wine I’m not sure how to … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 10 – Champagne, Gossip & Decadence (according to Frank Krüger)

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Stuart

I know that this blog is sometimes very serious, even dead serious, but this is not one of those days. Today, it is literally dead funny. You see, I’m still on this God-awful VIP-trip and many of today’s VIPs, are … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 8 – Almost Famous on a Good Night

Posted on April 7, 2015 by Stuart

Yes, for those of you who are familiar with German TV, that is Thomas Gottschalk sitting next to me. I should have posted this photo of our meeting in the great Berlin wine bar ‘Weinstein’ right after it happened, but … Continue reading →

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Berlin Riesling Diary: Day 4 – Rockstar Wine Guys, Real Rockstars ‘n’ Riesling

Posted on April 3, 2015 by Stuart

I still don’t know what I was waiting for / And my time was running wild… I had to do a lot of work to this image to make it look like what it actually is, an old photo of Rod … Continue reading →

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